The Bulgarian village of Rezovo, located in the southeasternmost corner of the country, off the border with Turkey, will stage a torchlight rally Saturday evening against the construction of a thermal power plant (TPP) in the town of Igneada.

A group of seventeen Bulgarian workers, employed in Israel's town of Netivot, are in danger and in close proximity of the Gaza strip, the spokesperson of Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry, Vessela Cherneva reports.

Commenting on a protest rally staged by the opposition left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said that it was triggered by envy over the achievements of the GERB government.